Cameras of Dreams: A Book about Prototypes
Jürgen Lossau, author of the highly-saught standard books “Film Projectors” and “Film Cameras 1+2” cannot help it: In a market climate in which the print media is chronically suffering, and…
Category Historic
Elmo Album – the luxury “click & whir”. A repair report
Die "Elmo Album" ist eine recht seltene Super 8 Kamera — und das ist schade, denn sie hat einige wirkliche Besonderheiten. Das besonderste (und zugleich heute irrelevanteste) ist wohl, dass…
Simplified Color Processing Forms
In 1978, so more than 40 years ago, the photochemistry legend Patrick D. Dignan published a highly interesting script with the title "How to Compound ... Simplified Color Processing Formulas."…
DigIt: The archive of everyday analogue life
Digit is a WDR project in which new photos and films from everyday life of the past are added to a database every day. Digit is designed to prevent these…
SIlent Movie Concert in a church with analogue 35mm film projection
No, it was not a loveless DVD or Blu-ray played from the laptop (preferably with a projected disc menu and several trial-and-error attempts in front of a gathered audience, as…
Short documentary “Films from Wolfen”
German MDR's "Mediathek" presents a beautiful, ten-minute short documentary about Orwo yesterday and today. There are glimpses into yesterday, today, dark rooms and a perforator in action can be seen…
Memories of Eumig and Wiener Neudorf
Wanted: Small format films from 1950 to 1980 100 years of Eumig – 1919, the company was founded, and with up to 7,000 employees in the 1970s was the largest…
Double Super: DS8
I wrote the following article in August 2015 and then never published it for some reason.Nevertheless, it has not become less interesting, because it shows that Wittner would still be…
Of compulsive nature: Pentaflex 8 – (Part 1)
The examined camera has the serial number 35933; With Pentovar, No. 6355608. On the back of the selenium cell I find as confirmation "ELECTROCELL Dec". Stamped in 1963. The production…
Deciphering Edge Marks
If you want to know when (and where) a film was produced, you can usually do so via so-called edge markings (or "edge codes"). However, the information on deciphering the…